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Going Mad Quotes

The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.
- Douglas Adams

Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most familiar face- even my own- become ghostly, unreal, enigmatic. I get into an attitude of almost total scepticism, nescience, solipsism, in a world of dumb, sphinx-like things that cannot explain themselves. The discovery of how I am situated- a sentient being on a globe in space overshadows me. I wish I were just nothing.
- W N P Barbellion

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.
- Edward Bond

...I saw the infernal Thing blocking my path in the twilight. The dead travel fast, and by short cuts unknown to ordinary coolies. I laughed aloud a second time, and checked my laughter suddenly, for I was afraid I was going mad.
- Rudyard Kipling

For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair.
The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
- Paul Cezanne

At the end of the day, we're just trying to prevent each other from going mad.
- Will Champion

"...you're too old not to have had, how shall I say, certain experiences. You've had bad internet dates. You've had people be creeps to you. You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world"
"I feel like I am going mad"
"Madness is actually quite rare in individuals. It's groups of people who go mad. Countries, cults... religions"
- Douglas Coupland

I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices
- Virginia Woolf

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
- Michel De Montaigne

Of course I've gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It's boring and no one listens to you!
Russ Cargill
- Matt Groening

He wanted to dismiss Saint Rosaline's comments out of hand, but this was impossible because he knew that the comments came from the recesses of this own mink. Either that, or he was truly going mad, which at this point seemed like an attractive option.
- Suzanne Harper

How clear the realization one is going mad -- the mind has a silence, nothing happens in the physique, urine gathers in your loins, your ribs contract.
- Jack Kerouac

i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.
- Ian Mcewan

About the trees my arms I wound;
Like one going mad I hugged the ground;
I raised my quivering arms on high;
I laughed and laughed into the sky.
- Edna St Vincent Millay

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